LIBRARY RESOURCES AND RESEARCH METHODS FOR FRENCH 2601: RECHERCHE BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE French 2601 Winter 2016

TODAY’S CLASS Types of references you need to find for your recherche bibilographique Library Resources How to find the references you need for your assignment Research Strategies How to make the best use of library resources & search tips!

TYPES OF REFERENCES A Scholarly Monograph (un livre critique générale) example: a book about the novels of Annie Ernaux. A First Edition (la première édition du livre choisi) example: the first published edition of Albert Camus’ novel La Peste. Three Scholarly Journal Articles or Book Chapters or Books (articles ou chapitres de livres ou livres critiques) that discuss a specific subject associated with your book examples: - an article about the depiction of artists in Amélie Nothomb’s Robert des noms propres published in the journal French Studies; - a chapter about Marcel Proust’s narrative technique in the book, The Cambridge Companion to Proust.

LIBRARY RESOURCES To search for books and book chapters: - MtA Library Catalogue, Other Library Catalogues,* WorldCat* To search for articles (and, in some cases, books and book chapters): -Library Databases such as MLA, Erudit, JSTOR, Project Muse, ProQuest, Repère, and others * Keep in mind that the resources you identify need not be available at the Mount A Library (though you do need to indicate if they are).

IDENTIFYING A FIRST EDITION How do you know whether the edition you’ve found is the first edition?

IDENTIFYING A FIRST EDITION How do you know whether the edition you’ve found is the first edition? Hint: First editions are not always identified as first editions in the book itself.

IDENTIFYING A FIRST EDITION La peste. / Albert Camus 1967, ©1947 French Book Book : Fiction 332 pages ; 19 cm. Paris : Gallimard La peste / Albert Camus 1947 French Book Book : Fiction 332 pages ; 20 cm. Paris : Gallimard La peste / Albert Camus 1982, ©1947 French Book Book : Fiction 278 pages ; 18 cm. [Paris] : Gallimard, ; ISBN: La peste / Albert Camus; W J Strachan d ed. French Book Book : Fiction xxxviii, 338 pages ; 17 cm. London : Methuen The plague / Albert Camus, Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert English Book Book : Fiction 278 pages 19 cm. New York, Modern Library

IDENTIFYING A FIRST EDITION La peste. / Albert Camus 1967, ©1947 French Book Book : Fiction 332 pages ; 19 cm. Paris : Gallimard La peste / Albert Camus 1947 French Book Book : Fiction 332 pages ; 20 cm. Paris : Gallimard La peste / Albert Camus 1982, ©1947 French Book Book : Fiction 278 pages ; 18 cm. [Paris] : Gallimard, ; ISBN: La peste / Albert Camus; W J Strachan d ed. French Book Book : Fiction xxxviii, 338 pages ; 17 cm. London : Methuen The plague / Albert Camus, Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert English Book Book : Fiction 278 pages 19 cm. New York, Modern Library

LIBRARY RESOURCES To search for books and book chapters: - MtA Library Catalogue, Other Library Catalogues, WorldCat To search for articles (and, in some cases, books and book chapters): - Library Databases such as MLA Database, Erudit, JSTOR, etc. To search for information about an author or book (such as the date of a first edition): - Reference books such as Historical Dictionary of French Literature; Dictionnaire des lettres françaises…

HOW TO FIND BOOKS

Mount Allison Library Catalogue Also: Certain library databases (e.g. MLA) Other university library catalogues, WorldCat Other books (scan the bibliographies of books you’ve already found) Browsing library shelves

Keyword search for: beckett and modernism

Finding Books

More Detail

Table of Contents: A listing of all of the chapters in the book.

Subject Headings Click to find other books with the same Subject Heading. In other words: more books about the works of Samuel Beckett.

Finding Books

A good way to find information about an author and their work is to search by Subject using the Author’s name. In other words: Author names can be used as Subjects

FINDING ARTICLES

- Journal Articles are not indexed in the Library Catalogue - You can use the Catalogue to find out which journals and magazines are available at the library, but not which articles.

FINDING ARTICLES To search for articles: Use library databases - These databases serve as indexes to articles published in scholarly journals (and also, in some cases, to books and book chapters) - Library databases often (but not always) provide access to the full text of articles

Find Info: then follow links for Finding Articles

You can sort databases by Subject

MLA DATABASE Index to scholarly research in several languages covering topics in language, literature, linguistics, folklore and film. Covers articles and (selectively) books and book chapters (essays published in edited collections). Not a full-text database, but will help you identify articles (and books, chapters…) that exist, and which we may have in print or in another database (such as JSTOR, Project Muse).

MLA Search Page

Default sort is “relevance” MLA Search Results Page

MLA Individual Item Record Page

MtA Libraries Journal Finder

Finding Articles

Interlibrary Loan When the book or article you need isn’t available at our library… You can request them using the library’s interlibrary loan service.

You can also borrow books from other Libraries IN PERSON by getting a CAUL card at the Mount A Library.

Search Tip Truncation Symbol $ in the Library Catalogue * in most other library databases Example: Canad$ will find: Canada, Canadian, Canadians, Canadiana, canadien, canadienne, canadiennes, etc. - Canada find over 14,000 items - Canad$ finds over 19,000 items

Search Strategies Searching for books and articles about French Literature: Scholarship in French Literature appears in English and French Use French and English search terms (keywords)

Keyword Selection A good place to start: Author name Significant words from the title of the work your are researching examples: Beckett AND godot Ernaux AND honte

Keyword Selection A good place to start: Author name Significant words from the title of the work your are researching examples: Beckett AND godot AND additional keyword(s) Ernaux AND honte AND additional keywords(s)

Sample MLA Search Results Initial Search: beckett AND godot = 595 Subsequent searches using additional keywords to make the search more specific: beckett AND godot AND existentialism = 12 beckett AND godot AND language = 81 beckett AND godot AND language AND religio* = 4

Keyword Selection A search for “canadian plays” will retrieve different results than a search for “theatre and canada.”

Keyword Selection Sample essay topic: Discuss how québecois writers address the issue of identity. What are the relevant keywords?

Keyword Selection Sample essay topic: Discuss how québecois writers address the issue of identity. What are the relevant keywords?

Keyword Selection However… A search in the Library Catalogue for “quebecois and writers and identity” yields ZERO results.

Keyword Selection However… A search in the Library Catalogue for “quebecois and writers and identity” yields zero results. Try using: synonyms, related words, variant spellings, French words, etc. In other words: try to account for the various ways different authors may express the same or similar ideas, topics, concepts, etc.

Keyword Selection Original search: quebecois and writers and identity = 0 items Search using synonyms and related words: quebec$ and (literature or litterature or theatre) and identit$ = 42 items

Keyword selection matters. Search strategy matters. A few tips: Don’t rely on just one or two searches The first words used to describe a topic are probably not the only words you could use to search for information on that topic Take time to think about other ways to search for information on your topic (to find items that were not retrieved the first time) The sources you find first or most easily may or may not be the best sources for your topic

What is Peer-Review? “Scrutinizing Science: Peer Review.” Understanding Science. University of California Museum of Paleontology. 4 October See the next slide for a summary of peer review in French Lit. Studies.

What is Peer-Review? “Scrutinizing Science: Peer Review.” Understanding Science. University of California Museum of Paleontology. 4 October Scholar writes an article about the work(s). A literature scholar studies a work(s) of Literature and related texts. “…sufficiently high scientific standards…” Could say instead: “sufficiently high disciplinary standards” …in French Lit The peer-reviewers: other scholars who work in the same area (who have similar areas of expertise).

Searching with AND, OR, NOT Many databases allow you to format a search using AND, OR & NOT. - For example: "music AND (pop OR rock)". This guide explains how to use these types of searches effectively: Boolean Searching: Search Effectively Using AND, OR, NOT A Colorado State University Libraries Tutorial Boolean Searching: Search Effectively Using AND, OR, NOT

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